New Welfare Regs Aid Trans New Yorkers
Gay City News (LGBT newspaper, New York)
by Paul Schindler
February 18, 2010
http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/02/20/gay_city_news/news/doc4b7d960babfb4076775121.txt (http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/02/20/gay_city_news/news/doc4b7d960babfb4076775121.txt)
Leading advocates for transgendered New Yorkers and a top official from the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) announced that New York's sprawling welfare bureaucracy is now prepared to implement best practices guidelines for working with gender-nonconforming clients —more than four years after the policy was worked out in principle and nearly eight years after enactment of a gender identity and expression nondiscrimination law.